As the Simba rebellion tightened its grip on Stanleyville, nearly 2,000 foreign hostages faced execution unless a rescue came ...

Alongside previously released materials, the State Archives is publishing in full the files related to the Entebbe operation, some of which had already been partially disclosed.

Fifty years after Israel's daring hostage rescue at Uganda's Entebbe Airport, known as Operation Thunderbolt or Operation ...

Four hostages have been rescued in an Israeli operation that took weeks of planning – but killed scores of Palestinians in Gaza and left behind a trail of devastation. At least 274 Palestinians were ...

On 4th July 1976, Israeli commandos flew more than 2,500 miles into Uganda, stormed Entebbe Airport and rescued more than one ...

Nearly five decades ago, Yonatan (Yoni) Netanyahu, brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, led one of the most daring hostage rescue missions in modern history—the Entebbe Raid. At that ...

Group who took part in rescue operation alongside PM's slain brother say they refuse to 'serve as window dressing' to ...

The major hostage standoff is played out on live television. They had actually already flipped coins deciding which persons were going to be shot first. It remains the largest hostage rescue operation ...